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A jam submission

DeckmastersView game page

Your soul hangs in the balance!
Submitted by vgel (@voooooogel), linneaisaac — 8 minutes, 32 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#544.0564.056
Visuals#1363.8893.889
Fun#1563.6393.639
WOWIE!#1893.4723.472
Topic#1913.6943.694
Simplicity#7172.8892.889
Sound#7931.8061.806

Ranked from 36 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Music Source
Self-made

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Submitted(+1)

These puzzles are actually tough to solve!! It took me a bunch of tries to fail the last level. What I really love is the art, though! The marker texture, the colors, the card characters and their little lore. I think a skip dialogue button could be useful for retrying levels or going for the opposite route (win/lose/etc).
Great job!

Submitted(+1)

Great parody of a certain TCG. 

A bit confusing at first, it'd be nice to see how the cards moved as well as how they attack. Needs some sound effects but I can see you didn't get to uploading it in time (if you already had them done they may let you upload it, worth an ask)

Funny Dialogue, I like that you can choose to continue regardless whether you win or lose.

Submitted(+1)

Funny story and great visuals. The mechanics could do with a tutorial or better feedback on what's going on. I beat the game by sparing everyone, but I still only kinda understand what was going on haha. With some polish, I'm sure that this would make a great full release. Thanks for making it!

Submitted(+1)

I'd play a physical version of this game any day!  The sound didn't work for me for some reason, though.  

Developer

we didn’t quite get to uploading it in time ^^’

(+1)

Interesting concept, and I love the Yu-Gi-Oh! theming here. Some nice comedy as well with the evil millennium puzzle stand-in , although having to repeat the same dialogue on repeat whenever you restart was a small niggle. Some of the cards were pretty funny as well (especially comparing your cards to your opponents). The art was serviceable especially for just 48 hours, but having sound effects and background music would've really helped the game.

Overall, nice work!

Submitted(+1)

This is a really fun and just nice game. I like that you can progress either way and the kind of puzzle that is saving the people. Pretty nice.

Submitted(+1)

Great game, I liked that I had a choice on whether to try to win or lose, really loved the execution, i think the only improvement could be to have different opponents based on which direction you go but amazing job for the time taken! Brilliant game jam entry

Submitted(+1)

haha. Fun Yu-Gi-Oh references. Some fun game play and awesome artwork. Nicely done. :)

Submitted(+1)

This was really fun! I took both routes, save them all, and beat them all. I actually really enjoyed the mechanics of the game. I could tell that they were well thought out. Also, you had some funny cards and dialogue in there which I really enjoyed! I think I saw The Humpty Warrior, The warrior who wasn't rebuilt quite right. That one was pretty funny.  There are two improvements that I see that you can make to your game. You could make the background a little more appealing. Gradient backgrounds always look nice! Also, audio would make your game way better too! Overall, though, your game was awesome! Great job!

Submitted(+1)

Very well made card game, I reached till the third opponent, the old man, enjoyed playing it but I am not aware of rules and how to's of the game, can you add them later as instructions? but overall your game was really nice and fun to play, good luck for the jam! :)

Submitted(+1)

Really nice game ! I liked the weird take on the card-battling genre. I wouldn't say the mechanics are hard to understand, especially since it's pretty easy to experiment at first, I only wish the game had more battles but a short, well polished game is always better than a long and poorly designed one. :)

Also, the game made me laugh, so bonus points for the funny writing !

Submitted(+1)

Interesting card game, first i though you have to move the card, but i figured it out was click. Funny game, interesting concept and i loved the details of the cards!

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

I really liked it ! Probably because it's a similar concept as mine XD
There's even references to storytelling with "sidekick" and "comic" relief like I've done with "plot armor" and "a wizzard did it" XD

I loved the details of the cards, really well tought, and the graphics.

At first I did not understand you could harm your own side, so I was often like "why do we lose so much health ?". And I see the music is self-made but actually, I haven't heard any sound in the game :o (i played the web version)

But it's definitly in my top 3 best games of the jam

Submitted(+1)

A really nice game :)

Submitted(+2)

really nicegame! pretty hard in the start but pretty fun afterwards!

Developer

Thanks! I think we needed a better tutorial :)

Submitted(+2)

It was a little hard to get a hang of it at first, but it's pretty fun!

Developer

Thanks! I think we needed a better tutorial :)

Submitted(+2)

I really like that you came up with such a funny story to justify the inverted win condition. Also, the YuGiOh parody cards made me laugh.

The first level took me far longer to clear than the others. A shallower learning curve would be nice. Maybe introduce the cards more gradually?

I'd love to see more of this.

Developer

Yeah definitely tough in the beginning. I like the idea of giving the cards out more gradually too, that probably would have made it more approachable at first.

Glad you liked the YuGiOh parody cards :)

Submitted(+2)

This deserves to be a full game. I would pay for a real life copy of DeckMasters, the TCG to play with my friends. I enjoyed it a ton. I also recommend joining the HTCG community discord server if you do decide to go that route. 

Developer

So glad you think so! We’ll definitely check that out! 

Submitted

If you are interested in the discord server, it's here:

https://discord.gg/DbgqHec

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

Love the concept.
I need to play this tomorrow when i'm not really tired lol

Developer

Please do! ^-^

Submitted

its very cool but i just can't figure out whats causing players to take damage.

Developer

Players take damage if an empty square on their side of the field is hit by an attack. If a square has a monster, the monster takes the hit. Otherwise, if its a blue square you take the hit to HP and if its red your opponent does. So if you place a piece targeting at your own side, it will damage you, for example.

All damage hits regardless of who dealt it, so both players can "friendly fire" at their own monsters and even their own side of the field, making it possible to throw the game by hitting yourself, if you choose to.

We'll have to make the rules more clear in the future ^^' and add a rules page - oops.

Submitted

ohhhhhh, the squares on the edge take damage!

Submitted(+2)

Fun game! I really enjoyed the visuals and the strategy element of it. I liked a lot of the smaller details on the cards, like how my cards are like level 77 and the kids are level 12. 

If you wanted to improve, I suggest adding a 'restart battle ' option. I put down two of my units, the kid killed them and got to my side. I thought I'd loose but the game just stopped. Some music and sounds would be nice too.

Overall, fun card game. I'd love to see this sort of level as a one off in a full game with this battle system.

Developer

Thank you for your feedback! Glad you had fun.


We think that problem might be because there's dialogue to click through before the Win/Lose announcement appears, which might not have appeared automatically - oops! - maybe try clicking a few times if it seems nothings coming up? thanks for letting us know it was confusing.

Developer

Oh, figured out what you meant about the bug! We added a restart battle button (usually wouldn't change during the voting period, but it's a game-breaking bug which Jonas said is OK to change IIRC).

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